Abstract: A cognitive system is provided for sorting of numeric values utilizing an identification of superlative adjectives. For a set of adjectives and a set of nouns identified from a corpus: using a first indication as to whether each adjective in a set of adjectives is to modify a term and a second indication as to whether each noun in the set of nouns is to modify each adjective in the set of adjectives, a third indication is determined of whether each noun in the set of nouns is to be modified by either a maximum or minimum superlative adjective and whether the third indication is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold. If so, the adjective is added to a set of maximum or minimum superlative adjectives, which is then provided to the cognitive system for sorting of the numeric values.

Abstract: A cognitive system is provided for sorting of numeric values utilizing an identification of superlative adjectives. For a set of adjectives and a set of nouns identified from a corpus: using a first indication as to whether each adjective in a set of adjectives is to modify a term and a second indication as to whether each noun in the set of nouns is to modify each adjective in the set of adjectives, a third indication is determined of whether each noun in the set of nouns is to be modified by either a maximum or minimum superlative adjective and whether the third indication is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold. If so, the adjective is added to a set of maximum or minimum superlative adjectives, which is then provided to the cognitive system for sorting of the numeric values.